---
title: "CVE-2026-36469: CuteNews - Server-Side Request Forgery"
description: "CuteNews 2.1.2 contains a server-side request forgery caused by improper validation in core/modules/media.php upload_from_inet, letting attackers make arbitrary requests from the server, exploit requires access to the Upload by URL feature."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-36469/
---

# CVE-2026-36469 CuteNews - Server-Side Request Forgery

CuteNews 2.1.2 contains a server-side request forgery caused by improper validation in core/modules/media.php upload\_from\_inet, letting attackers make arbitrary requests from the server, exploit requires access to the Upload by URL feature.

CVSS base score 9.1 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

EPSS

0.27% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-36469)

## Details

Type

Server-Side Request Forgery

Impact

Server Side Request Forgery

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Published

21 September 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-918](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/918.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest version of CuteNews.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-36469](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-36469)
- [https://github.com/UmbraDeorum/cutenews-2.0-CVEs-2026-Disclosure](https://github.com/UmbraDeorum/cutenews-2.0-CVEs-2026-Disclosure)
- [https://github.com/CuteNews/cutenews-2.0](https://github.com/CuteNews/cutenews-2.0)
- [https://github.com/CuteNews/cutenews-2.0/blob/master/core/modules/media.php](https://github.com/CuteNews/cutenews-2.0/blob/master/core/modules/media.php)

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- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
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